Cancer patients are becoming increasingly reliant on charity handouts to heat their homes as they struggle to pay rising fuel bills, newly-published figures have shown.

Matthew Hill finds the answer to a story which connects Buddhist monks, a Hollywood film star and a half-man, half-beast.

NHS hospitals in England will be free to use almost half their hospital beds and theatre time for private patients under government plans.

A Scunthorpe baby who was born blind has become the youngest patient in the UK to have a corneal transplant, doctors say.